38 Flashcards

(33 cards)

1
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A pipe or channel built to carry water over a long distance

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Aqueducts

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The name for the eastern Roman Empire located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it lasted from about 500 to 1453 C.E

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Byzantine Empire

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3
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To separate into smaller pieces

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Dissolved

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4
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The language originally spoken in Ancient Rome on which many words in modern languages are bases.

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Latin

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5
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The concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking

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Natural law

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A person who promotes artistic activities by paying for the new works and supporting artists

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Patron

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A great flowering of culture based on classical Greek and Roman ideas that began in Italy around 1300 and spread throughout Europe

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Renaissance

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A philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Rome and that focused on devolving virtue self control and courage as a way to achieve happiness

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Stoicism

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9
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To move from one person or place to another

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Transfer

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10
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A large monument in the shape of an arch that celebrates a leader or a military victory

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Triumphal arch

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Similarly many people today believe that all humans have WHAT? that no written law can take away

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Basic rights

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12
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Romulus Augustus lost his WHAT to a Germanic leader odoacer

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Throne

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The. The western half of the empire dissolved into separate kingdoms ruled by WAHT

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Different tribes

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Many of these people settled inside the WHAT and were recruited into the army however these soldiers often had little loyalty to WGAT

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Empire Rome

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The revolutionized engineering as well as architecture. They were the greatest builders of Rhodes branches and Aquaduct in theWHAT

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Accident world

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16
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Popular of the United States when Americans imitated to give their artWHAT

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Dignity and nobility

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For example, many statues in the capital WAHT reflected, strong Roman influence

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Washington D.c

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In the east the empire continued for another WHAT WHAT

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Today we call this eastern empire the WHAT WHAT after Byzantium the original name of its capital city

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Byzantine empire

20
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Languages developed from Latin, including Italian WAHT AND WHAT

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Spinach’s French

21
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one popular art form was the WHAT a raised and carved portrait of a persons head or a carved scene

22
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The huge size of the empire made it difficult to WHAT. by the 300s germanic tribes were pressing hatd from the west as the threat of Persians was growing in the WHAT

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Were the first to make widespread use of concrete, which they made by mixing WAHT AND WHAT with sand, cement and water and then allowing the mixture to harden

24
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Judges in roaming courts attempted to make just or fair decisions that respected WHAT

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Individual rights

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Romans were also great WHAT or sponsors of art. They WHAT thousands of painters sculptors and crafts people to create their works
Patrons paid
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Rome never solved the problem of how to peacefully WHAT political power to a new leader. When the emperor died rivals might fight each other to WAHt hi,
Transfer replace
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Real control fell into the hands of the army, who could choose to help WHAT seize power or destroy them. Regularly rivals grew impatient waiting for an emperor to die and resorted to WAHT
Leaders murder
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A thousand years after the ball, the empire Roman art was rediscovered during the period called the WHAT
Renaissance
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With the use of WHAT they were able to construct much bigger archers then anyone
Concrete
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The Roman’s wore WHAT as jewelry and decor
Cameo
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Rome never solved the problem of how to peacefully WHAT political power, power to a new leader
Transfer
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Under this WHAT WHAT they believed every person has natural rights
Natural law
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Like judges in Roman courts WHAT WHAT judges make decisions based on these ideas, as well as on written law
Modern stay